Woods Bluff horizon (Cave Branch) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Alabama (31.9° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 73.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bashi Member (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "Woods Bluff horizon". No stratigraphic data reported in text. "Woods Bluff" horizon = Bashi, which is known to occur at this locality (JAS, 10/10).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• No geologic data reported in text.
• No lithologic data provided in text.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: No collection data reported in text

Primary reference: T. H. Aldrich. 1921. New Eocene species from Alabama. Bulletins of American Paleontology 9(37) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35080: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.10.2003

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Taxonomic list

• Probably fairly representative of molluscan fauna in enterers opinion
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina leana tellin clam
 Cardiida - Montacutidae
Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna dekayi snail
Listed as "Cylichna deKayi"
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
 Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
"Turris specus" = Turris, "Turris bimoniatus" = Turris, "Turris (Pleurotoma) nodoideus" = Turris
"Turris specus" = Turris turrid
"Turris bimoniatus" = Turris turrid
"Turris (Pleurotoma) nodoideus" = Turris turrid
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
"Ancillaria subglobosa" = Ancilla
"Ancillaria subglobosa" = Ancilla olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
 Neogastropoda - Ptychatractidae
Exilia pergracilis Conrad 1860 snail
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
"Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) tardiusculus" = Ptycheulimella
"Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) tardiusculus" = Ptycheulimella snail
Pasithea
  -
Egeria
  -
"Diplodonta nana" = Egeria nana, "Egerella subtrigonia" = Egeria subtrigonia
"Diplodonta nana" = Egeria nana Lea 1833
"Egerella subtrigonia" = Egeria subtrigonia Lea 1833